Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-04-22

NdiInt oTueT, II H~Nt-ytdr-olu Cililu, VI
Cambridge, was seriously and perhaps
fatally scalded by falling into boiling
water a few days ago.
The little five-year-old daughter of AL
fred Beaupre of Burlington fell into a
tub of hot water Saturday evening and
died of its injuries ten hours later.
Rev. George 5. Pratt, formerly pastor
Of the st. Adams Baptist church, was
confirmed as an Episcopalian by Bishop
Bissell Tuesday evening. Mr.. Pratt enters
the Episcopal ministry.
The first Methodist preaching in east
ern Vermont was by Nicholas Snethen,
who was appointed to the Vershire cir
cult in 1896. The first Westinghouse i'm
the Vermont conference was built at
Barre in 1901.
Rev. L. ID. Mears, pastor of the Congre-
gational church at Dandy, has closed his
pastorate there and gone to Wisconsin
that he might be near his father in the
%latter's declining years.
~ lIIOuSH lIclSHl lIdln vi tlt Di'
.Johnsbury and Lake Champlain road was
thrown from the track at Morrisville
Monday night, and three cars loaded with
Fairbanks scales were badly wrecked.
5. Bradley Wakeman and daughter
Lucy of Jay have been arrested for ac-
cepting hush money from DR.. l.. j.. La
%tourneau, who was accused of unprofes-
sional conduct toward Miss Wakeman
while acting as her doctor.
Patrick Mahon's four-year-old child at
Brandon. the other day, played with
matches and set her clothes on fire. She
was terribly burned about the neck and
body. She suffered great pain, but lived
nearly "A hours after the accident.
a large public meeting was held at
Alburg Springs Friday to encourage the
extension of the Canada Atlantic railroad
from Lacolle, p. G., to Alburg. Only II
miles of track are necessary to complete
the link which gives direct %communica-
ton with Ottawa.
Stephen Pickett at Fair Haven was
preparing a hole for "A blast, when the
powder suddenly ignited and an explosion
took place. His face and eyes were filled
completely full of fragments of stone and
off. He may save his eyes.
Rev. George F. Pentecost is expected
to begin his labors in Montpelier on the
first Sunday in May. Montpelier is the
second place in which DIR. PentecoSt
breaches since giving up his great church
in Brooklyn to devote himself exclusively
to evangelistic work..
Thomas EIallahan, flagnan at Bellows
Falls. was instantly killed Friday morn
ing while trying to save a team from be
ing struck by a freight train. The team
was struck, throwing the train from the
track against the Cheshire bridge. tn,
horse and driver escaped injury.
The Clarendon and Pittsford railroad
which is practically built and owned by
the Vermont Marble company, is being
extended from Proctor to Center ant
West Rutland, and from thence to Claren
, don, so as to connect by rail all the quar-
. ries and works of the Vermont Marble
. company.
During the recent flood in Bolton Mr.
Stevens lost II sheep and . lambs whicl
| were drowned in the Darn by the higl
A water, together with , 2-year-old cattl
and / calves. The water rose half wa,
up the sides of the cows which wer
sanctioned in the barn, but they wer
finally saved Free Press.
, A landslide at Slip hill, Middlesex, o
5 the main line of the Central. caused a
!, accident to the early freight train Mon
day morning. The engine went dow
so feet into the river, but the tender an
cars hung to the track. The Bosto
morning mail was delayed till afternoon
5 Nobody was hurt.
: The selectmen of Rutland, West Ru'
u land and Proctor have voted to rogue,
q Judge Il. 5. Taft to appoint Hon. W. Il
: II. Bingham of Stowe, 5. c. Shurtleff c
Montpelier and Col. L. A. Woodbury. c
g Burlington a committee of appraisal c
y the Rutland town hall property. Tn
three towns cannot agree as to the valu
of the property.
= Mrs. Charles Z. Harris of RUTLAND
who was so severely injured in the di
tressing %toboggan accident at Rutlan
last winter, is gradually wasting away
I" She is able to take nourishment only b
Is hypodermic injections, and has not sufl
It cient vitality to withstand the terribI
u" drain produced by her injuries and I'll
nervou shock.
~ The Williams system of railroad ca
h heating, which has just been given a
+, official test on the Central Vermont raj
road, is very ingenious, and is likely
- be of practical benefit. By this systel
- the exhaust steam is taken up by NEAR